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Can South Africa Be a Developmental State (2010)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2010). Can South Africa Be a Developmental State. In O. Edigheji (Ed.), Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa Potentials and Challenges (169-182). Human Sciences Research Council Press

Can Melanie Klein help us understand morality in IR? Suggestions for a psychoanalytic interpretation of why and how states do good (2009)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2009). Can Melanie Klein help us understand morality in IR? Suggestions for a psychoanalytic interpretation of why and how states do good. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38(2), 295-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829809347534

This article explores the question of why states attempt to ‘do good’ or behave morally beyond their own borders. It draws on the conceptual model developed by the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein in her work on moral development. Klein suggested that chi... Read More about Can Melanie Klein help us understand morality in IR? Suggestions for a psychoanalytic interpretation of why and how states do good.

The Safe Haven Myth (2009)
Digital Artefact
Innes, M. A. (2009). The Safe Haven Myth. [Online article]

Healing the scar: idealism, Africa and British policy under Blair (2009)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2009). Healing the scar: idealism, Africa and British policy under Blair. African Affairs, 108(432), 435-451. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adp024

This article examines the British government's commitment to Africa during Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister. Drawing on interviews with politicians from across the political spectrum and with officials involved in Africa policy, it shows how Briti... Read More about Healing the scar: idealism, Africa and British policy under Blair.

Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (2009)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2009). Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In V. Popovski, G. M. Reichberg, & N. Turner (Eds.), World Religions and Norms of War (166-220). United Nations University Press

Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference (2008)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N. (2008). Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 35(3), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530190802525155

The proposed paper will explore the changing role of women and gender in Iraq from the 1950s pre-revolutionary period, throughout 35 years of Ba'th regime, economic sanctions to the current post 2003 period. Against the historic background of both st... Read More about Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference.

Deconstructing Political Orthodoxies on Insurgent and Terrorist Sanctuaries (2008)
Journal Article
Innes, M. A. (2008). Deconstructing Political Orthodoxies on Insurgent and Terrorist Sanctuaries. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 31(3), 251-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/10576100701879646

Critics of the War on Terror have pointed to the futility of waging war on a tactic. Its emphasis on denying “sanctuary” and “safe havens” to terrorists, however, has also been informed by a political discourse that privileges the static, physical ch... Read More about Deconstructing Political Orthodoxies on Insurgent and Terrorist Sanctuaries.

War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central (2008)
Book Chapter
Goodhand, J. (2008). War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central. In M. Pugh, N. Cooper, & M. Turner (Eds.), Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (225-244). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_14

Wherever there is violent conflict, boundaries and borders are taken seriously. As the quote above implies, boundaries play an ambiguous role, acting simultaneously as source of security and antagonism, inclusion and exclusion. Which boundaries becom... Read More about War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central.

The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War (2008)
Book Chapter
Tripp, C. (2008). The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War. In V. Lowe, A. Roberts, J. Welsh, & D. Zaum (Eds.), The United Nations Security Council and War (368-383). Oxford University Press

Protected Status, Sacred Sites, Black Holes and Human Agents: System, Sanctuary and Terrain Complexity (2008)
Journal Article
Innes, M. A. (2008). Protected Status, Sacred Sites, Black Holes and Human Agents: System, Sanctuary and Terrain Complexity. Civil Wars, 10(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698240701835417

The rhetoric following 11 September 2001 was full of talk of operations and battles that would be fought out of the public view, in an effort to prepare voting publics for a conflict of indeterminate scope, duration, and indeed, of place. Locational... Read More about Protected Status, Sacred Sites, Black Holes and Human Agents: System, Sanctuary and Terrain Complexity.

Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation (2008)
Report
Plesch, D. (2008). Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation

In practice there is still a “piecemeal approach towards proliferation” and argued that a genuinely comprehensive and global approach to non-proliferation would involve the integration of policy “on nuclear and other WMD non- proliferation, arms cont... Read More about Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation.

Considering a war with Iran (2007)
Preprint / Working Paper
Plesch, D., & Butcher, M. Considering a war with Iran

The paper is a strategic studies analyis of the war-fronts, weapon systems and political-military tactics of a U.S.-Iranian war, including the U.S. use of nuclear weapons.

Thinking about Power (2007)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F. (2007). Thinking about Power. In F. Berenskoetter, & M. J. Williams (Eds.), Power in World Politics (1-22). Routledge